CAF Supplies Tallinn with New Trams

The city of Tallinn will buy at least 15 new trams from the Spanish company CAF which won the procurement for buying new trams held by the Tallinn City Transport Co, LETA/Postimees Online reports.

The trams will be delivered in 2014 and 2015.

The contest was declared in June and two bids were submitted: by Swiss-German joint bidders Stadler Bussnang AG/Stadler Pankow GmbH and Spanish bidder Construcciones y Axiliar de Ferrocariles S.A (CAF).

The new modern trams will be bought for proceeds the state gets from selling unused pollution quota that is channelled into environment-friendly projects.

The presumed cost of the procurement is 44.25 million euros. As an option, 15 such trams more can be bought.